Next City 1/5/18:
5 Transportation Projects to Watch in 2018
There was plenty of good, bad, and weird news on the transportation beat in 2017.
Driverless cars began taking to the roadways in numbers. New Orleans launched a bike share system. An Amtrak train making its first run on a new line derailed near Olympia, Washington, killing three people. Elon Musk called public transit advocate Jarrett Walker an “idiot.”
But transit is all about moving forward. American cities are preparing to launch projects that could change the way people get around town and chip away at their dependence on private cars. Here are a few transportation projects to watch for in 2018.
Continue here. (2 of the 5 named projects are rail.)